Snap peas, cucumbers and bush beans that is.

Another heavy spray of insecticide soap on the boxwoods. Small green bugs with micro styrofoam like output.  Eggs perhaps.  

Put in some cucumbers and bush beans in the veg bed. Still have lots to plant. Yeah. 

Had to move the boxwoods before I could plant the new apple and pear trees.  They really create an entrance for the salad bar.

Shows better than a couple of whips.

Planted the second lot of basil from seed and half of the Munster lavender from Richters. Speaking of which:

The bergamot as well. Looking pretty pathetic after being left in their pots for a couple of weeks. Needed more love I guess.  

Also had to transplant the girls. Getting severely pot bound.  It is all going to georgous. No specific deadline on that!

Bought them March 4 at Home Depot at the top of the street. Chitted almost the entire time in egg cartons. 

Been a busy spring, but lo and behold on the early planting weekend, my upper back is talking back. (Insert sad face)

Good day for a photo update:

Fences first. 

Great to have them in. Hopefully done for a long, long time. Richard, Astrid’s brother really made a major difference. His first fence and mine too.  

Thirty post holes and 1000kg of concrete.  Cedar ain’t cheap, but looks and smells amazing. 

Of course I always get excited about the apple blossoms.  Sprayed all the apples with BTK today, then we had a minute of rain.  Now sun! Of course the crab apple is more resistant, but still some minor insects. And one guest star, on the blooming Haskaps, a mud bee.


And for my mother on Mother’s Day. The rhubarb from April 19 and then today on May 8.